zounds
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 16
- Words With Friends
- 18
- Letters
- 6
/zuːndz/
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/zuːndz/ · /zaʊndz/
Definition of zounds
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
intj
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(dated)Expressing anger, surprise, assertion etc.
“'Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat, to scratch a man to death!”
“Bounds, mounds, lounds, founds, kounds, downds, rounds, pounds, zounds! — hounds — ha! hounds — I have it.”
“"Zounds!" he exclaimed. "What the dickens is that?"”
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Etymology
Minced form of God's wounds, with reference to the wounds from Christ's crucifixion. Compare strewth, blimey, gadzooks, 'sblood, crikey.
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